DIFFUSE LUNG DISEASE OF UNKNOWN ETIOLOGY
Rheumatoid arthritis is associated with five different pulmonary manifestations present in a high percentage of seropositive cases: exudative pleural effusion characterized by a very low glucose concentration; pulmonary nodules varying from a few millimeters to greater than 5 cm in diameter; rheumatoid nodules in association with coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (Caplan’s syndrome); diffuse interstitial fibrosis; and pulmonary vasculitis. With the exception of the nodules and the low glucose in the pleural fluid, patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) may have many of the same manifestations. Pleuritis and pneumonitis have also been described in Sjogren’s syndrome, polymyositis, and dermato-myositis. The lung is commonly involved in scleroderma presenting as pulmonary fibrosis and/or pulmonary hypertension.
- SMOKING CESSATION
- Alterations in Glomerular Hemodynamics, Parathyroid Hormone Metabolism, and Systemic Arterial Blood Pressure
- SPECIFIC CLINICAL DISORDERS
- CARDIAC PACEMAKERS
- Renal Biopsy and Other Diagnostic Tests
- Community Acquired Pneumonia
- DRUG-ASSOCIATED RENAL INJURY
- Clinical Manifestations
- Treatment
- Factors Involved in the Choice of Type of Dialysis
- Hematopoietic System
- PLEURAL EFFUSIONS
- Urinary Tract Infection
- MYOCARDIAL DISEASE - MYOCARDITIS
- Blood Chemistries
- GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE
- The Use of Diuretics
- GRANULOMATOUS LIVER DISEASE
- PRE-EXCITATIOIi SYNDROMES
- OBLITERATIVE OR OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- Reduction in GFR
- RENAL METABOLISM Of DRUGS
- LABORATORY TESTS IN LIVER DISEASE
- Texas MedicareRX
- RADIOGRAPHIC AND ENDOSCOPIC PROCEDURES IN GASTROENTEROLOGY
- Pyuria
- APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WJTH SUSPECTED MALDIGESTION AND/OR MALABSORPTION
- Disopyramide
- Comprehensive Health-care Program for Children in Foster Care
- Complications of Dialysis
- Indirect
- Renal Venous Occlusion
- SMOKE INHALATION
- Potassium Homeostasis
- GENERAL SURGERY IN THE PATIENT WITH HEART DISEASE